February 17, 2011

And all agreed he certainly appeared ready for the Oval Office, despite his protests to the contrary.

“He looked presidential in the kind of Hollywood sense,” [Democratic strategist Jamal] Simmons said. “The 'Bulworth,' straight-talking politician. John Goodman on 'The West Wing.' Republican guy from the heartland. He looked that part but it’s a long way to go from there to the White House.”

Eh. Okay. You're a Democratic strategist. What's your game?

[GOP strategist Chris] Henick said he was impressed by Christie’s “willingness step out on the ice without worrying about falling through or not” – by taking on the powerful teachers’ unions and seeking to reform costly public employee pension programs.

“Today was about complete command, focus on the immediacy of our problems,” Henick said.

The time for smooth talkers and personalities is over. The winning ticket in 2012 will be led by a pragmatist who offers common sense solutions to our many problems. Chris Christie seems to be one of those people. Mitch Daniels is another.

I'm pretty sure that Christie does NOT use a teleprompter....or at least I've seen him talk at length with NO teleprompter.

Christie would never say..."the police behaved stupidly".....and why would anyone ever construct such a sentence? I'm sorry, but that statement is a litmus test for intelligence. I believe that it indicates a room temperature IQ.

Bulworth? Wasn't that the Warren Beatty movie about the establishment Republican who had a personality-changing aneurysm or something like that and started rapping & sleeping with idealistic, young black women & pushing Hollywood-left libertine politics?

I'll never vote for Thune, Pasta, or any other politician who so voraciously defends the inexcusable ethanol abomination. Christie's pretty entertaining, but probably unelectable outside of Jersey. He's too left-wing for the check-box socons and pro-life absolutists, they'd split off for Huckabee or some other no-hope vanity play. I like Daniels, but he's charging off into that same Waterloo, I fear.

Chris Christie is very good, IF you like guyz who’s shtick is to beat up on the Teachers Union. HOWEVER, if you’re a Second Amendment Conservative, and Pro-Life, and not so sure about the Ground Zero Mosque and you would like an insight into the future of America’s national Security/Foreign Policy Christie lacks…..Christie, like Mitch Daniels seems to ignore the three legs of Conservatism, Fiscal, Defense, AND Social….He’s good on Fiscal.

As Rush Limbaugh says, when do you see the Left jettisoning one of their constituent groups? Only the Right seems determined to jettison a part of its “base.” The Social Conservatives. It can’t just be said, “But the Fiscal Crisis is SOOOO Bad….” That’s as may be, but when the current Administration and Congress convene, did they ONLY focus on one thing, no they addressed the issues of their constituencies…in short the Left can walk and chew gum at the same time, why not the Right?

Bottom-Line: you want experience, and fiscal conservatism, AND Pro-Life AND pro-Defense you can have all that in Palin…if you just want to defund teachers unions, by all means vote for Christie…..

I find it so interesting that Gov. Chris Christie was respectful of a woman's individual, constitutional right to reproductive choice while he was running his campaign in pro-choice New Jersey. Just a lettre to a NJ newspaper….

I sure hope he doesn't go on a diet regime! For once we have someone totally focused on day-to-day business and not on his carb counts or his personal best 10K time or his bench press. I like that forgetfulness-of-self; it's kinda rare in our Hollywood pols nowadays.

Granted, it's old-school, except (I hope) without the smoking and heavy drinking. He just may live long enough to be president.

That's easily the biggest (style) difference from the CPAC speakers. I yawned through most CPAC speeches due to the robotic nature.

At least one of these big right-leaning organizations should host a gathering with a No Prepared Remarks rule. Everyone would watch. Risky for the candidate? Yes. But not as risky as looking like a frightened tool.

The problem is that the media will not cover up the dirt like they do for Democrats.

Obama was dirty. His deal with the real estate and his wife's mafia no work job would never be accepted if he was a Republican. They would have beat that drum every day in every way to drive him out of office.

I'd take Christie at his word about not wanting to run, not being ready, and I think he's right, too. Let him focus on NJ and let's see how that turns out. And, as I think I've written here before, I think Mary Pat would absolutely have to be on board or a run for the presidency, now or in the future, would be a non-starter. She's sweet, but a tough cookie--or at least she was back in college days, and from what I can tell from afar, neither of them seem to be all that different than they were then. Which speaks well of them, IMO.

He always was jowly, by the way. He could be at his perfect weight and he'd still be a solid type and his head, neck and shoulders, in particular, would still look big. Especially in photographs and video.

I hope Christie stays fat. He is the one fat person I like and approve of. I would love to have a fat plain speaking president who did not talk out of his ass, who calls bullshit on most bullshit, and whose default position would be to leave us all alone as much as possible. I wouldn't even mind sitting next to him on an airplane.

Gov Christie seems to be the real thing--dont agree with all of his positions, but he seems to be honest and straightforward--I dont much give a rats ass about his other positions--at this point in the republic's history fiscal sanity is job one--the other stuff can be dealt with.

And predictably comments about his weight seem to crop up like mushrooms after the first spring rain--

I will take Gov Christie at his word--fix new jersey and run on his record there

Better than that shucker and jiver that we have in the white house now.